[Etherboot-discuss] gPXE 0.9.3 (development) released

[Marty C. <md...@et...>]

On February 14, 2008, I released gPXE 0.9.3 at:

     http://kernel.org/pub/software/utils/boot/gpxe/

and

     http://rom-o-matic.net/

MD5 sums:

     d1323fada193a06466db3c78d6bb0944 gpxe-0.9.3.tar.gz
     e54b5fc597488e902af22c5d520b8d37 gpxe-0.9.3.tar.bz2

Documentation and HowTos are available at:

     http://etherboot.org/

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This is the first public development release of gPXE, and is the
result of a lot of work from many people.

I would particularly like to thank Michael Brown, our lead
developer for his excellent work on gPXE.

I would also like to thank H. Peter Anvin (hpa), author of
syslinux (and pxelinux) for his help and support in getting gPXE
to a releasable state.

Thanks to our Google Summer of Code students for the last two
years for their contributions to the gPXE code.

Thanks to all of the people on our IRC channel ( #etherboot on
the Freenode.net IRC network ).  We have been in constant
conversation for a year, and development has been greatly
enhanced by being able to communicate so freely.

In addition to releasing gPXE, I would like to announce that two
other software packages related to gPXE have been released
recently.

H. Peter Anvin released "wraplinux", a mknbi replacement at:

     http://kernel.org/pub/linux/boot/wraplinux/

wraplinux will take a linux kernel and one or more initrds and
create an NBI or ELF format file or loading with gPXE or
Etherboot.  It is compatible with modern kernels (2.6.22 and
later) which may cause mknbi to fail.

Many thanks to hpa for this fine utility.

Vampyre, a very active participant on our IRC channel (#etherboot
on irc.freenode.net) has released "WinAoE", a GPL 3 Windows
Driver, which allows booting of Windows 2000 through Vista 64
from AoE (ATA over Ethernet).  It is available from:

     http://winaoe.org/

gPXE can boot from AoE and iSCSI volumes, so with WinAoE installed,
it is possible to boot from remote AoE storage devices.

Thanks to Coraid.com for their support for development of this
driver.

There are a lot of other people who have contributed in the last
few years to help gPXE along. I thank you for your help, and look
forward to continuing to create useful software with you.

Today is special because we are publishing a useful new network
bootloader with PXE, DNS, HTTP, iSCSI, and AoE support (among other
enhancements).  This is just the beginning of our plans for gPXE.

Now we get to polish, improve, and discover what these new capabilities
will enable people to do.

Please test gPXE and let us know how things go.  We're constantly
working to improve, and part of what makes it so personally rewarding
for me to work on gPXE is the great community of people who contribute
testing, code, documentation and advice.

Thank you all very much!

Marty

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